A Nurse’s Opinion on the Impunity Reign of Prof. Isaac Adewole Nigeria’s Health Minister

When the beautiful profile of Professor Isaac Adewole came up on my facebook page and failed to mention anything about publications and research in leading and managing the health community or institutions, I was quick to raise the caution sign but my friends was quicker accussing me of being a hater.
Now we see the biggest hater whose unfashionable autocratic style of leadership is playing out the Hitler’s way. There is no apartheid in the health sector except that of Nigeria where medicine is as good as health and surgery is seen as abundant life.
Just that the possibility is narrow for them in 70s and 80s to eventually witness how friendly and civilized we the millenials will brilliantly run this country not just the health sector. If health is wealth, then it is the inalienable right of every citizen home and abroad to contribute in a meaningful way without fear or favour. The public health in Nigeria is worse than Uganda where there was civil war, maternal mortality in Nigeria outclassed Bangladesh and staff morale cannot be anymore lower than it is now as young Nigerian doctors, nurses and medical laboratory scientists are leaving the catastrophe called Federal Ministry of Death in droves. Yet the Professor is guided by tradition of hatred and crumbling oligarchy to bleed the surviving part to death.
Sir, I wish you long life and what you wish yourself. I pray you live long enough after you are retired or thrown out to witness the transformation in our health sector. We are not unlearned about various forms of discrimination including Adolf Hitler’s genocide against the Jews. We have seen what happened in SouthAfrica and much more we have read how women were villified in England and America before the beautiful and enviable life the present Prime Minister Theresa May now enjoys in England. History is littered with Villains and the Victorious. The JOHESU agitation though not conceivable enough in the irrationality of third world apartheid leaders it is the truth, the torch of hope and liberation to a group of people who fatten up in it’s devastation. There’s a hope because standing on the shoulders of Martin Luther King Jnr I could only see the land and I have vowed to walk into it.

©Omolade Odunayo
Member Nigeria Nurses in Diaspora